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Stephen Downes

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According to the personalized learning scenario, writes Will Richardson, "Software is the path to an 'education.' Deep data drives the delivery, and assessment is built in.... (but) there's a fatal flaw in that scenario. Put simply, we can't have everyone get As. And if "personalized learning" achieves its goal, that's exactly what would happen, right?" Well, I wouldn't mind, but "the last thing those who pay high taxes and steep tuition for academic 'excellence' want is to become denizens of Lake Wobegon where "all of the children are above average." Richardson continues: "What won't fail in this information, knowledge, people, and technology abundant world is personal learning, pursuing a curriculum that WE develop to serve our learning needs and desires" (As an aside, I think that the image accompanying the article was entirely inappropriate).

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